2014 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[SAHM_TAN]

thankgod:

so sorry for the confusion - i'm looking for an specific titles/books that you would recommend. my apologies.

Sorry I only know where to buy such bks but cannot recommend any titles becos I don't use them. I only have one and the title is out of print.

[kiasuparentsirock]

Does anybody know what the schools have good English/Math/Chinese/Science papers besides NYPS?

[Geraldinelim]

thankgod:

hi there - joining this thread as well.


(a) any suggestions as to where to get/purchase/buy model EL and CL compositions? these are weak areas that need to brush up.

(b) with the CA1+SA1 results out, are some of you able to compute your DS/DD own t-scores against their school cohort? how good an indication is that? is the existing cohort in their existing primary schools as good presentation?

a) I dont really encourage memorising model essays. Just imagine the examiners marking the same essays over and over again. A good model essay would probably becomes a normal essay.

Best to write your own.

b) How about comparing with the school's ranking?

[hhgold]

Any suggestion to improve English Comprehension and cloze passage

[kiasuparentsirock]

hhgold:

Any suggestion to improve English Comprehension and cloze passage

Heyya...

Try this...
Before attempting to read the comprehension passage,
read through the questions first - like once through...
Twice even better. Then read the passage. Why this
works? ( For me and my kiddie, at least... )

The once through with the questions has provided the
child with an idea... a sneak preview to what the story
or the passage is about.

Hence, when reading the passage the answers come
almost automatic, cos they already know it was being
asked in the questions (that they read earlier...).

Another is to scoop out for the main word - read from
the question itself and the answer should be around
there. Better to have a clue than a blank - i dunno...
cannot find.

Sometimes the question is tricky cause the word has
been changed to another with similar meaning - sieve
that out from the passage as well. For example :

The passage goes...

>...after spending all the money her mum gave her on
the stationery from the bookshop, she was not left with
any balance of coins to make that one important phone call.

The question then reads...

>What happened to the remaining coins? Why couldn't she make the call?

> Or - Was there any amount left from the pocket money to make the
call? Why?

In this example, the main word was intentionally replaced to test the
child's vocabulary skills. Child must know that these words
all provide similar meanings.

>ie. balance=remainder= whatever amount that is left....
..... to know that (that word) it is the main word from the question given.

Child must also watch for the very direct clues - why, what, where, how,
whose, who, etc indications of what of answer the question needs...

With our home practise, we also follow a general rule to underline the
answer and number them accordingly (to the corresponding question),
to save the trouble of looking/scouring for the answer again by having
to read through the passage AGAIN.. That, i find the children don't like
to do. They do not fancy reading the passage over and over again...
especially when they already know they couldn't find in the first place.

So, they totally dislike this statement...
\"Read through the passage again and understand...
The answer is in there.. Try again..\"

Left to that on their own to solve for so much so..
more than what they can tahan (to hear), they will
switch off and lose interest.

I'm not sure if this technique will help but just sharing
what i work with my girls and my students.

Cheerios!
:celebrate:
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?p=22054#22054

[kiasuparentsirock]

hhgold:

Any suggestion to improve English Comprehension and cloze passage

for cloze passage you can refer to:
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=8251
http://sgpsleenglish.blogspot.sg/

[hhgold]

Thank you for all tips kiasuparentsirock


Will try out with my dd.

Hope it works for her.

[kiasuparentsirock]

can anybody suggest any good assessment books for:


comprehension open-ended (chinese & english)
comprehension cloze (english)

[sleepy]

Somehow I feel that the approach to mastering languages is different from Maths. (more) Practice doesn’t make perfect, unlike Maths.


Doing more cloze or compre exercises don’t seem to help much.

Or am I the only one with this observation?

[lurline]

Sleepy, I agree with u.